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These terms are often used casually but there is an important distinction to underscore. Facts appear in both definitions. In information, we can think of facts not in terms of being true or false but as artefacts, assertions, entities, or kernels. Knowledge is built up at least in part by information (and thus facts) but also as an experience. So knowledge is more a state of being than an entity.What interests me is how the representation helps information to become knowledge by the way it mediates attachment of meaning.

These terms are often used casually but there is an important distinction to underscore. Facts appear in both definitions. In information, we can think of facts not in terms of being true or false but as artefacts, assertions, entities, or kernels. Knowledge is built up at least in part by information (and thus facts) but also as an experience. So knowledge is more a state of being than an entity. What interests me is how the representation helps information to become knowledge by the way it mediates attachment of meaning.

Pieces of ochre rock decorated with geometric patterns found at Blombos Cave in South Africa, nearly 200 miles from Cape Town, in 2002, have been dated to the Middle Stone Age, equivalent to the European Middle Paleolithic.&quot;This ocher plaque has marks that may have been used to count or store information. A close-up look at the object shows that the markings are clearly organized. This systematic pattern suggests to some researchers that the markings represent information rather than decoration&quot; (http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/blombos-ocher-plaque)

Mathematics began with the earliest records of attempts to quantify time. The Ishango Bone, a notched tally stick discovered in the Congo (Zaire) in 1960 by Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, and now preserved in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, represents, according to Alexander Marschak, a six-month lunar calendar. It is among the earliest known mathematical objects. Other lunar calendars from about the same date have been discovered on other bones such as the Isturitz Baton, and possibly in cave paintings in Lascaux and elsewhere.The markings at the bottom are especially interesting because they make use of basic capabilities of the human visual perception to create meaning,

Fast forward a few thousand years, skipping past Sumerian tablets, Egyptian papyrus scrolls, and Gutenberg. We have perhaps the first attempt to produce a representation that graphs values in a regularised 2-D space. This example makes use of many attributes of our visual pereception system to encode values in a way that can be easily and quickly interpreted.

Certain visual attributes “pop-out” from their surroundings. We don’t have to think about them to be aware of them. The are pre-attentive. Pre-attentive processing determines what will be offered up to our attention and action. The rose will become more important later…

Certain visual attributes “pop-out” from their surroundings. We don’t have to think about them to be aware of them. The are pre-attentive. Pre-attentive processing determines what will be offered up to our attention and action.

One way of becoming very aware of how much we rely upon our pre-attentive visual perception is by examining various optical illusions. By putting our pre-attentive visual processing and our conscious cognition in conflict, the degree to which we rely upon pre-attentive processing is exposed.

Visual perception does not measure absolute values, but rather the differences between values of what is perceived. In this case the colour surround the squares influences our perception of the colours of the squares. We perceive the difference between the colour of the squares and the colour surrounding them.

We perceive the difference between the colours of the squares based on the colours near to them. Thus, when we want to use a particular pre-attentive attribute such as hue, it’s best to choose values that vary significantly from one another. The top row of colours is easier to discriminate than the bottom row.

In fact, all of visualperception operates this way. The pair of lines on the left seem more different than on the right but in fact they are exactly the same. Both sets differ by the same amount: 1 unit of measure. The difference on the let appears greater because we perceive the differences as ratios rather than as absolute values. The ration of the lengths on the left is 2-to-1, a difference of 100%, whereas the ratio of those on the right is 100-to-99, only a 1% difference.

Certain visual attributes “pop-out” from their surroundings. We don’t have to think about them to be aware of them. The are pre-attentive. Pre-attentive processing determines what will be offered up to our attention and action.

dys- (greek): bad or difficultversusdis- (latin/french): negation, separation, reversal, or removal information place things into the former category which undermine our expectations about information and that can be a form of disinformation.Creature: dryicons.com

Notes on visual representation

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Some notes on visual representation<br />Brock Craft<br />

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information |ˌinfərˈmāshən|noun<br />facts provided or learned about something or someone : a vital piece of information. See note at knowledge .2 what is conveyed or represented by a particular arrangement or sequence of things : genetically transmitted information.<br />knowledge |ˈnälij|noun<br />facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject : a thirst for knowledge | her considerable knowledge of antiques.2 awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation <br />New Oxford American Dictionary<br />

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Visual Perception<br />What we see is constructed<br />Resulting from several visual properties which are “built in”<br />We can perceive both the constituent parts and the whole<br />Has important consequences for interface design<br />